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Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
I've just spent a day cleaning up the G4. Wiped system HD, installed 9.2.2 and reinstalled all software.
At the same time I installed a new extra IDE drive for backup and re-initialised 2 18gb Cheetahs (Glyph rack on Atto dual SCSI card ) with Express ProTools 2.3.2. Everything is up and running great, except Soft SampleCell - the extension is crossed out on startup, and when you try and run it you get a "can't find SampleCell hardware, try restarting" message. It used to work fine on this system before my cleanup. The only way to get it running is to restart with the Glyph turned off - then it works fine. Answerbase mentions several conflicts with hardware and other extensions but in this case none of it helps. As the 2 Cheetahs are now blank I'm presuming it must be a conflict with the Atto HD drivers. Anyone any ideas ? G4 500DP Digi 7 slot expansion chassis Miro DC30+ Atto dual scsi 2 X 18Gb Cheetahs in Glyph rack 3 X Mix, 1 DSP Farm card PT 5.1.1 |
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Re: Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
If you haven't already done so, try a Mac OS Base extension set with the following enabled:
-Digidesign Control Panel -DigiSystem INIT -Digidesign Direct I/O -Digidesign DSP Manager -Digidesign Stream Manager -Open Music System -Soft SampleCell INIT -USB Floppy Enabler Brent |
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Re: Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
Hi Brent
Thanx for the quick reply. However no luck with your suggestion. OS 9.2.2 base + digi / oms extensions I get the same message when trying to run SSC - Unable to find or allocate any samplecell cards. Try power cycling your computer. If I restart without my external scsi drives on it works fine again! It worked fine until I installed 9.2.2 and erased my scsi drives - they are currently empty apart from Atto drivers (although I only erased the drives, I didn't low level format them). |
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Re: Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
Remove all FireWire and extraneous USB devices and hubs (i.e. only have the keyboard and mouse connected to the computer). Disable all third party extensions for these devices and try again. Any luck?
Brent |
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Re: Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
I don't know if this is still the same deal, but I do remember that the SSC extension was disturbed by some others ( it does explain the red cross on the init). the workaround was to add a space at the beginning of the Soft SampleCell extension name, then it will appear as second in your extensions load during the MacOS boot. ( without the red cross normally). Good luck.
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Re: Soft SampleCell + ATTO Problem
Ok - more details
OS9.2.2 base extension set + DIGI stuff - SSC would not start if I had my scsi drives going. Stripped down the base set to the minimum - no internet, Iomega, coloursync, discburner, printing etc, etc. OK, it now loads with the scsi drives on. Add back my midi stuff - OMS, freemidi, mptav usb etc. Still OK. Add back Miro DC30+ drivers - STOPS working. At this point I now find that SSC will run with either Miro drivers installed OR scsi drives on, but NOT both. Puting a space in front of the SSC extension name so it loaded earlier didn't help at any point. Went back to OS9.2.1 where I had SSC working flawlessly before and I'm having the same problems. This leads me to expect that it's Atto/PCI related - the only other thing I've changed by erasing the drives. I originally erased the drives using Apple's Erase Disc from the Special Menu. I wasn't sure whether this was right with regard to the drivers so I re-erased them using the ExpressPro-Tools 2.3.2 App and installed their drivers. I now have 6 partitions on each drive - #1 Apple_partition_map 50.0kb #2 Apple_Driver43 500.0kb #3 Apple_HFS_ATTO 2.0kb #4 ATTO_Options 0.5kb #5 ATTO_SharedDatabase 10.0kb #6 Apple_HFS 17.09GB I seem to remember there having been an FWB driver in this list before. All other Atto settings are as per Technical FAQ's. |
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